Electronic Manufacturing Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

important." Duan Yongping, the founder, Chairman and CEO of BBK Electronics Corp., a Chinese company that manufactures consumer electronics, also said that Chinese consumers are becoming more concerned... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Dec 1999
News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from leading print and View Details

20 Jul 2015
Blog Post

My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music

Luckily, I had many industry contacts from my time at Apple, so it was just a matter of reaching out to these people to see who might be interested in my help. My music “specialty,” if you will, is electronic dance music (EDM). It’s... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

01 Mar 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images News “Fast” and “unexpected” are two words Adrian Beer (OPM 31, 2002) uses to describe his work as CEO of GrupoBeer, a Madrid-based corporation providing post-disaster services such as building... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Financial Services

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

services produced. (GameStop, for example, is up more than 900 percent YTD.) “That means, in the medium to long term, these stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2007
News

Ideas against AIDS

is now chairman and CEO of Hayes Lemmerz International, a world leader in the manufacture of wheel rims for truck and cars. Of his association with Viravaidya, Clawson told the Boston Globe (May 29, 2007), “It’s one of the greatest... View Details

Keywords: AIDS & HIV; activism; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Educational Services; Educational Services

August 1992
Case

Otis Pacific Asia Operations (A): National Challenges

By: Michael Y. Yoshino

Describes the elevator market and Otis's competitive position in four markets: Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Japan. The student is asked to evaluate the strategic and competitive challenges in each market, especially in light of strong Japanese competition across the... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Network Effects; Problems and Challenges; Global Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India; Japan; Malaysia; Hong Kong

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01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

And government officials are furiously promoting what they call new energy vehicles (NEVs)—a catchall term that includes electrics, hybrids, and fuel-cell vehicles—through a variety of means. As a result, local EV manufacturers have... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

Oliver Ewald said his firm, Audax Group, has recently made deals on corporate carve-outs that include a digital x-ray manufacturer based in Switzerland and a cryogenic equipment manufacturer in the Czech... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

tax and regulatory climate, outstanding talent, workforce development.” Over the course of nearly eight years, the Louisiana Economic Development agency’s efforts attracted companies that included IBM, CGI, CSC (now General Dynamics IT), and View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

jobs must include entrepreneurs." Mills is approaching her work at the Competitiveness Project through a framework she calls a job-creation playbook, which is broken down into three categories: institutions (accelerators, economic clusters, and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services; Financial Services

25 Mar 2016
News

Putting Faith in a Good Education

president and CEO of COMPS InfoSystems between 1992 and 2000. During his leadership, the small regional print-publishing firm that covered commercial real estate became a national electronic database publisher, with 420 employees and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

Web

Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library

Harvard University, is responsible for acquiring, preserving, and making available the records of HBS that have permanent legal, fiscal, and/or historical value. These include school publications, paper files, photographs, oral histories, video, film, and digital... View Details

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new manufacturing entrants between 1985 and 1994 and find that firms are far more attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Electric Mobility in India

placed on the decarbonization of 2-wheeler mobility. Nevertheless, certain impediments to widespread adoption persist, including inadequate charging infrastructure, customer apprehension, and a shortage of domestic battery manufacturing... View Details

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

pull this off? Focus instead on Big Idea Group's "process of innovation and value creation," says Christensen. Lack of creativity is rarely the reason for lackluster products and services coming out of the pipeline.... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gray

June 2013
Supplement

Wayne Ferrari: iAutomation at a Crossroads (Video Supplement)

This is the Video Supplement for Wayne Ferrari: I Automation at a Crossroads (HBS Case #813120). View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Private Equity Exit; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Distribution; Channels Of Distribution; Acquisitions; Integration; Growth; Salesforce Management; Price; Private Equity; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States